{"id":60411,"date":"2020-01-31T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T03:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60411"},"modified":"2020-01-31T11:23:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T03:23:03","slug":"financially-troubled-south-african-airways-to-cancel-more-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60411","title":{"rendered":"Financially-troubled South African Airways to cancel more flights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/South-African-Airways-to-cancel-more-flights-852475?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/283\/28300381.295.jpg\" alt=\"South African Airways has been struggling financially for years\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>PRETORIA, Jan 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; South African Airways (SAA) has announced it is cancelling more flights in a bid to &#8220;ensure [it] is running efficient flights&#8221;.<br><br>In a statement, the troubled airline said it was cancelling dozens of domestic and international flights next month due to &#8220;low demand based on current forward bookings for the month of February&#8221;.<br><br>Earlier this week, it was announced SAA would receive 3.5bn South African rand in emergency funding from the Development Bank of Southern Africa &#8211; a government-owned bank.<br><br>A little over a week ago, South African Airways cancelled over 30 flights in an attempt to conserve cash.<br><br>The airlines was placed in bankruptcy protection in December. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRETORIA, Jan 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; South African Airways (SAA) has announced it is cancelling more flights in a bid to &#8220;ensure [it] is running efficient flights&#8221;. In a statement, the troubled airline said it was cancelling dozens of domestic and international flights next month due to &#8220;low demand based on current forward bookings for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}